[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Department of Homeland Security is funding one of the groups that is staging protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which falls under DHS. War Room's Natalie Winters shared the shocking information on X, showing that DHS, under the Biden administration, gave a project grant to Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) in the amount of $450,000.
CHIRLA has been engaging in and staging protests opposing ICE. Protesters with CHIRLA carry signs saying "Stop deportations: full rights for immigrants colonists," "ICE: out of our communities," "Education not Deportation," "Stop the starvation, stop the deportations," and "The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now."
CHIRLA representatives spoke to the crowd. "Our community is under attack and has been terrorized," said CHIRLA executive director Angelica Salas. "These are workers, these are fathers, these are mothers." Of the initial award, $100,000 remains to be disbursed to the group.
On Friday, Salas spoke at a presser of the CHIRLA-run LA Rapid Response Network "following the series of ICE raids conducted" that morning. On Facebook, publicizing the remarks, CHIRLA wrote "To our immigrant community: we see you, we hear you, and we will NOT stop fighting for you. We say NO deportations. NO to mass detentions. Families belong together! We belong here!"
Salas spoke about the group's "indignation as to what happened in our city, in our neighborhoods, in our workplaces. Our community is under attack and is being terrorized."
"These are workers," Salas continued, "these are fathers, these are mothers, and this has to stop. Immigration enforcement that is terrorizing our families throughout this country and picking up our people that we love must stop now.
"My call today is to all US citizens, because I want you to know if our rights are violated, if our constitutional rights are violated, if our due process rights are violated, then anybody's right can be violated.
"You think that you are protected because you are not an immigrant. I am here to tell you what is happening in this country and what we observe today is unprecedented, and we are in a situation where every single person who believes in democracy and believes in the ability of us to live free in this country is under attack," Salas said.
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